the united states. what can you tell us about spending money, managers putting money to work in terms of i.t.? >> people will spend money if there's good return on investment, solid return on investment, people will spend. i think that's indicative of what you saw in our results. that said, there isn't a customer went do have, maria, who isn't on an austerity plan and innovation agenda at the same time. people are trying to save money. at the same time, to free them up to be able to invest. >> let me get your take on this transition or sort of the way data has transitioned. you know, traditional data, oracle has been the main company and the leadership firm there. but data is changing. and so now people are calling it big data, whether you're talking about traditional data or the data from cell phones, smartphones, biotech, a lot of health care information. what are you doing in terms of transitioning to the big data? because it does seem some of the smaller upstarts have taken some market share in some of that big data, the data that's changing. >> big data, most often described as more d